NC 'quickly approaching' 200 charter schools
One year after North Carolina charter schools hit an enrollment high of more than 100,000 students, they are now "quickly approaching" a new milestone - opening the 200th charter school in the state, according to Dave Machado, director of North Carolina's Office of Charter Schools.
Posted — UpdatedCharters, which are publicly funded and privately run schools, have been booming in North Carolina with more than 109,000 students currently enrolled at 184 schools across the state. Last year, the state received 35 applications to open new charter schools. Twenty-two new charters are currently in a planning year/ready-to-open process.
Meanwhile, traditional public schools, which still educate the vast majority of students in North Carolina, have continued to see their numbers drop.
Charters first opened in North Carolina two decades ago. Since then, state funding for them has grown from about $16.5 million in 1997, when there were 34 schools, to more than $580 million last school year. Of the $8.93 billion in state funding for public education last school year, 6.5 percent was allotted to charter schools.
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